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| Introduction | |
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| Definitions, Definitions | |
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| Some Milestone Games | |
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| Old-Style Games | |
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| Board Wargames | |
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| Other Non-Computer Games | |
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| Videogames | |
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| Computer Games | |
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| Play | |
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| History of Play | |
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| Play Is Metaphorical | |
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| Play Must Be Safe | |
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| Play Need Not Be Exotic | |
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| The Fun Factor | |
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| Challenge | |
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| Challenge Necessitates Rules | |
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| The Point Is the Challenge, Not the Goal | |
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| Dimensions of Challenge | |
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| Challenge and Identity | |
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| Conflict | |
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| Mars, Venus, and Conflict | |
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| Dimensions of Conflict | |
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| Directness of Conflict | |
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| Intensity of Conflict | |
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| Intensity and the Evolution of Taste | |
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| Interactivity History | |
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| Other Attributes of the Computer | |
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| So What Is Interactivity? | |
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| Is More Interactivity Better? | |
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| How Do We Measure Interactivity? | |
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| Low-Interactivity Entertainment Designs | |
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| Process Intensity Versus Data Intensity | |
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| Creativity: The Missing Ingredient | |
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| How Serious Is the Problem? | |
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| Where Does Creativity Come From? | |
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| How to "Get Creative" | |
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| A Tyrannosaurus Rex for Ideas | |
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| The Politics of Innovation | |
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| Common Mistakes | |
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| Obsession with Cosmetics | |
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| Incremental Accretive Design | |
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| The Education of a Game Designer | |
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| Get a Degree | |
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| Education Versus Schooling | |
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| Games I'd Like to Build | |
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| Galilean Relativity | |
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| Napoleonic Cavalry | |
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| Napoleon in Space | |
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| Attack of the Cellular Automata | |
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| Volkerwanderung | |
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| Third-World Dictator | |
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| Lies | |
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| Spies | |
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| The Wheels of Commerce | |
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| Corporate Politics | |
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| Evolution | |
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| The Self-Modifying Game | |
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| Mooser-Gooser | |
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| So What Does All This Mean? | |
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| Storytelling | |
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| Adventure Games | |
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| Backstory | |
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| Cut Scenes | |
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| Integrated Cut Scenes | |
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| Here Come the Academics! Role-Playing Games | |
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| The Real Problem | |
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| Tackling the Problem | |
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| Random Sour Observations | |
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| Massively Multiplayer Monsters | |
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| Licensed Games | |
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| New Input Devices | |
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| The Sims | |
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| Short-Term Thinkers | |
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| Everybody's a Game Designer | |
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| Hollywood Envy | |
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| Young Males | |
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| Sleaze | |
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| Tanktics | |
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| Map | |
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| Calculating Line of Sight | |
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| Planning Moves | |
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| Initial Programming | |
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| Enter the KIM-1 | |
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| Input and Output | |
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| Linguistic Input | |
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| Sound Effects | |
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| Showing It Off | |
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| Porting | |
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| Production, Marketing, and Sales | |
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| Avalon-Hill | |
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| Fade Away | |
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| Results | |
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| Legionnaire | |
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| A Record-Setting Blunder | |
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| Disruption | |
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| Terrain | |
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| Sales | |
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| First Draft Design | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Wizard | |
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| VCS Technology | |
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| Designing the Game | |
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| Asymmetric Combat | |
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| Lines of Sight (LOS) | |
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| Disposition and Conclusion | |
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| Energy Czar | |
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| Scram | |
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| Input Structures | |
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| Oh Yes, It Was Supposed to Be a Game, Wasn't It? Coda | |
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| Eastern Front (1941) | |
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| The Scrolling Map | |
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| The Combat System | |
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| AI | |
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| Tuning | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Gossip | |
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| AI | |
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| Implementation Woes | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Excalibur | |
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| Camelot | |
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| The Interpersonal Subgame | |
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| Diplomacy | |
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| The Strategic Map | |
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| The Battle Subgame | |
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| Overall Course of Play | |
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| The Manual | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Balance of Power | |
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| The UnWar Game | |
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| Early Efforts | |
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| The Rubber Map | |
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| Thank You, National Enquirer | |
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| Research | |
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| Building the Map | |
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| Memory Headaches | |
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| Making It a Game | |
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| Publisher Woes | |
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| I Get by with a Little Help from the Press | |
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| The Wheel of Fortune | |
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| Patton Versus Rommel | |
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| To Hell with Grids | |
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| Geometric AI | |
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| Siboot | |
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| A Lesson for Designers | |
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| First Draft Proposal | |
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| The First Proposal | |
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| Design Essays | |
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| Economies | |
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| Intransitive Combat Relationships | |
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| The Inverse Parser | |
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| The Display | |
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| Interstitial Stories | |
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| The Novella | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Guns & Butter | |
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| Designing the World | |
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| Building Provinces | |
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| Adding Mountains, Deserts, and Forests | |
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| Naming Names | |
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| First-Person Firing Squad | |
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| The Economic System | |
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| Combat | |
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| Faces | |
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| The Ideas behind the Game | |
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| Results | |
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| Balance of the Planet | |
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| Values | |
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| Implementing a Value System | |
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| The Politics of the Game | |
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